resources policies and employment protections, including provisions to enable women
to return to work after childbirth; gender-awareness training and mechanisms for
hearing complaints, including on gender-based violence and bullying; the assessment
of disparities in promotion, training or wages, or in the selection or publication of
stories; adopting gender-sensitive risk assessments and mitigation plans for working in
difficult or dangerous places; identifying and removing gender-bias and gender
stereotyping in the media.
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Recommendations to broadcasters, including the Ministry of
Information’s state channels
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Conduct a review of programming to identify and remove gender bias and gender
stereotyping, delivering gender-awareness training to all staff.
Establish more gender-specific programming.
Engage with gender-focused civil society organisations to identify and develop genderspecific, relevant and engaging broadcast programming. This should include sensitive
topics such as sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence, harmful
cultural and religious practices and beliefs, and women’s rights. Such programming
should be independently evaluated, exploring the most appropriate medium, style,
tone, language and message.
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